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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rsync - how to copy hidden folder or hidden files when using full path Post 303004772 by Chubler_XL on Sunday 8th of October 2017 09:26:12 PM
Old 10-08-2017
rsync has no concept of hidden files and processes both files identically for me.

See my testing transcript below where both files copied OK:

Code:
$ A_FULL_PATH_D="home/install_user/.some_dir/some_file"
$ A_FULL_PATH_S="backup_sys/¬001_INSTALL/¬100_ETC_and_USER_MODIFIED_FILES/2017_10_06_22h30/${A_FULL_PATH_D}"
$ mkdir -p $(dirname $A_FULL_PATH_D $A_FULL_PATH_S)
$ touch $A_FULL_PATH_S
$ rsync -av --include=".*" "$A_FULL_PATH_S"  "$A_FULL_PATH_D"
sending incremental file list
some_file

sent 112 bytes  received 35 bytes  294.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
 
$ A_FULL_PATH_D="home/install_user/.some_dir/.some_file"
$ A_FULL_PATH_S="backup_sys/¬001_INSTALL/¬100_ETC_and_USER_MODIFIED_FILES/2017_10_06_22h30/${A_FULL_PATH_D}"
$ touch $A_FULL_PATH_S
$ rsync -av --include=".*" "$A_FULL_PATH_S"  "$A_FULL_PATH_D"
sending incremental file list
.some_file

sent 113 bytes  received 35 bytes  296.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

$ find $(dirname $A_FULL_PATH_D) -type f -print
home/install_user/.some_dir/.some_file
home/install_user/.some_dir/some_file

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RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile(3pm)

NAME
RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile DESCRIPTION
RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile is a class used to manipulate rsync configuration files. Is capable to maintaine the order of the modules, and even keep your comments and empty lines intact. SYNOPSIS
#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; sub main { my $cf = new RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile(filename => '/etc/rsyncd.conf'); $cf->Write('/tmp/new_rsyncd.conf'); return 0; } main(); METHODS
All methods, throw the OutsideClass exception, if you use them as class methods. Besides OutsideClass the methods are throwing other exceptions as well. Refer to each method documentation for more information. new(%hash) The class constructor. Accepts a hash as parameter. At this moment only one parameter can be specified inside the hash: filename . If this parameter is present, the file specified is parsed and loaded into the object. AddParam($pname, $pvalue) Add a new global parameter named $pname with value $value. AddComment($pval) Add a new global comment with value $pval AddBlank($bval) Add a new global blank line with value $bval AddNode($node) Adds a new RoPkg::Rsync::Node object to the current object. Before the node is added, the nodes list is checked for duplicates of the object. If a duplicate is found, the method does nothing. Exceptions: If $node is not a instance of RoPkg::Rsync::Node, Param::Wrong exception is raised. DelNode($node_name) Removes a node from the nodes list. The nodes are searched by their names. Returns -1 if the node was not found, the new number of nodes otherwise. HasNode($node_name) Returns 1 if the node with name $node_name was found in the nodes list, 0 otherwise. Clean() Clean the object. Removes all information (the nodes list, statistics, etc). Always returns 1. Parse($filename) Parse the configuration file $filename and returns the number of nodes. If $filename is not defined Param::Missing exception is raised. If the path does not point to a existing file, File::NotFound exception is raised. If the file could not be opened, File::Open exception is raised. Write($path) Write the configuration into the file specified by path $path. ToString() Returns the string representation of the configuration file. PREREQUISITES
perl 5.008 (or later) is required. Besides perl, you must have the following: *) RoPkg::Exceptions *) Scalar::Util *) English SEE ALSO
RoPkg::Rsync::Atom RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile RoPkg::Exceptions AUTHOR
Subredu Manuel <diablo@iasi.roedu.net> LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005 Subredu Manuel. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license. perl v5.8.8 2006-06-09 RoPkg::Rsync::ConfFile(3pm)
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